Joe Murray, Executive Director of the Rainbow Sash Movement in the USA, has challenged Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York to a debate on gay marriage. Such a debate would no doubt be valuable, both useful in clarifying the issues…
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Theology From Below: Catholic Conference on Sexual Diversity.
I call it “reality-based theology”, theologian Jeff Astley calls it “ordinary theology”, Tom Beaudoin at America magazine calls it “theology from below”. Whatever the words, what they have in common is the idea that theology that matters, is that which…
The Return of the Anti-Gay Crusade, or a More Listening Church?
The approval of gay marriage in New York and civil unions in Rhode Island, and before that the fuss over the cancellation/postponement of a Gay Pride Mass in Boston, have stirred up an angry backlash in some quarters of the…
Listening to Gay Christians: Anglicans move forward.
Too often in matters dealing with church and sexuality, we find two sides shouting at each other, when what is needed is proper discussion, which requires careful listening. In the churches, we often speak of a “gift of tongues”: the…
